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Strange writing : anomaly accounts in early medieval China /

Between the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B.C.E., and the Sui, which ended in 618 C.E., Chinese authors wrote many thousands of short textual items, each of which narrated or described some phenomenon deemed "strange." Most items told of encounters between humans and various denizens of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Campany, Robert Ford, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Chino
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996.
Colección:SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Anomaly and Cosmography in Comparative Perspective
  • 2. Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China: Genre and Texts
  • 3. Justifying the Strange: The Warrant for the Genre of Anomaly Accounts
  • 4. The Making of the Texts: Who, How, Why
  • 5. The Description and Narration of Anomaly: Cosmographic Poetics
  • 6. Modes of Anomaly: Cosmographic Logic
  • 7. Strange Persuasions: Cosmographic Rhetoric
  • 8. Reciprocity across Boundaries: Cosmographic Ethics.